Summer Sounds of St Kilda is an idea from MEMO Music Hall’s Simon Myers. “It’s going to have a very informal feel, the idea is you can come off the beach and check out “a local” playing at MEMO or The Ember Lounge, enjoy a beer without having to spend “a motza,” Simon told Noise11.com.

MEMO Music Hall is an historic building. The room opened in 1924 as a dance hall raising revenue for distressed soldiers and their families. In 1927 it became the picture theatre ‘The Memorial’ and stayed that way until 1958 when it became known as The Memo’.

Between 1961 and 1965 MEMO was the home of Bill Armstrong’s Telefil recordings and film studio. During this time, Normie Rowe recorded his hit song ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’ in the room that is now the venue.

Channel 7 used the studio for their weekly TV show Sunnyside Up, where a young Olivia Newton-John once made an appearance. MEMO closed to the public in the late 1980s and was finally reopened as the current MEMO Music Hall in 2015.

But wait, Deitra is American! “It wouldn’t be St Kilda unless we had a least one tourist, so Deitra Farr, ‘Queen Of The Blues’, singer out of Chicago USA will bring the Summer Sounds Of St Kilda to a close on Saturday night Jan. 27,” Simon said.

Sammy J has morphed into Country Star Buster J and together with his band The Franking Credits has given us what is potentially The Song of the Year. Fuck it, let's call it now … ‘Queensland We’re Breaking Up With You’ is the Song of the Year.